THE BUFFALO WIFE AND THE JAVELIN GAME. 97 
Some one went out of the lodge, and there, where the ashes were, 
was a new white tipi, and inside was a woman with a child upon 
her lap, talking to it. In the evening, the people went out to see the 
tipi, but there was no tipi. The young man was now well. He 
made up his mind to go out and see the tipi. When the child began 
to cry, the young man went out to see the tipi, and as he went out 
a woman with a new buffalo robe passed by him, leading a child. 
The young man went into the lodge and gathered up many eagle 
feathers and made a bundle of them. This he put upon his back, and 
went out of the lodge, following the woman and the child. The 
woman had made the young man follow her. By daylight the young 
man could see footprints of the woman and the child. He now saw 
the woman and the child walking up the hill. The young man ran 
to catch up with them, but as he got to the top of the hill he saw 
the woman and child walking, but this time they were Buffalo. The 
young man ran after them. Once in a while the young calf would 
run back, hop around the man, then return to his mother. When 
the calf would catch up with his mother he would say: “Mother, 
let us go slow. Father is tired.” The Buffalo cow would say: “No, 
my son, you must not run to that man; he put us into the fire.” In 
the night, the man saw a tipi near a river. He went to it. The calf 
came out and said, “Father, my mother said you were to lie down 
outside.” The young man lay down outside and went to sleep. When 
lhe awoke the next morning the tipi was gone. So he got up and 
followed the Buffalo. Every time the cow came to a stream of water 
she would rush in and lay a covering of dust over it, so that the 
water was hidden. The dust layer would be about two inches deep, 
so that the man could walk over it. The calf came to the man and 
said, “Father, do you want to drink?” The man said, “I am dying, 
for my throat is dry.” The calf told the man that he would stick 
his foot through the crust of dust, so that he could drink when he 
came to the little hole; that when he was through he must cover up 
the hole. The man found the hole and drank. He also washed his 
face and head. He first thought: “What a little hole. Can I get 
enough to drink?’ But he was soon filled, and thought it wonderful 
that a little hole like that should hold so much water. The man felt 
refreshed and ran on after the Buffalo. In the night the man again 
saw the tipi, and he knew that it was the Buffalo tipi. He went to it, 
and the calf came out, and said, “Father, my mother says you are to 
come into the tipi and lie down by the entrance.” So the man went 
